JULY 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1427

Tenders for Letter-carriers' and Telegraph Messengers' Uniforms, including Caps and Helmets: Time for receiving Tenders extended.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 27th June, 1901.

THE time for receiving tenders at this office has been extended until Friday, 5th July. Particulars of contract may be obtained from any Chief Postmaster.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

"The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900."—Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application on that behalf made to me by the Christchurch Master Bakers' Industrial Union of Employers, registered No. 130, situated at Christchurch, the registration of that industrial union will be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof unless within the six weeks specified proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having some claim on the funds of the industrial union to set aside such cancellation, and the same is set aside accordingly.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Examination of Land Surveyors.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 29th June, 1901.

IN accordance with the regulations for the examination of surveyors under "The Land Act, 1892," as published in the New Zealand Gazette of 5th March, 1896, it is hereby notified that

PERCY BLOMFIELD MACDONALD,
ANDREW GRAY MUIR,
ANDREW MURRAY ROBERTS,
WALTER CHARLES MCALISTER,
ARTHUR NEVILLE HARROP, and
WILERID MAY ATKINSON

have received certificates of competency as duly authorised surveyors.

A. BARRON,
Chairman of Board of Examiners.

Bonus for the Encouragement of the Manufacture of Condensed Milk in New Zealand.—Notice No. 644.

Department of Agriculture,
Head Office, Wellington, 17th June, 1901.

A BONUS for the encouragement of the manufacture of condensed milk in New Zealand is offered under the following conditions.

The total amount offered is £1,000, and it will be paid at the rate of one-fifth of a penny per pound to the manufacturer or manufacturers of the first 1,200,000 lb. of long-keeping condensed milk manufactured in this colony between the 1st day of July, 1901, and the 30th day of June, 1902, subject to the following provisions:—

1. Part-payments of the bonus may be made with respect to each calendar month during the above-mentioned period. Applications for such payments must be made in writing and forwarded so as to reach the Secretary for Agriculture within fourteen days after the end of the month with respect to which the claim is made, and must be accompanied by a statutory declaration (for form see Schedule) to the effect that the conditions of these regulations have been duly complied with.

2. The bonus will be allotted in strict order of priority of receipt of such applications and declarations.

3. The bonus will only be granted on good sound marketable milk of the fair average quality of the condensed milk manufactured by the applicant during the period for which the bonus is available.

4. The milk must be either (a) long-keeping unsweetened condensed milk, made from normal full-cream milk, and containing at least 10 per cent. of butter-fat, with no added preservative, or (b) long-keeping sweetened condensed milk made from normal full-cream milk, and containing not less than 10 per cent. of butter-fat, with no added preservative other than pure cane-sugar.

5. No application for payment of bonus will be entertained unless the manufacturers have given the department an opportunity to take samples whenever it so desires from the milk manufactured during the period with respect to which the claim is made, nor unless satisfactory proof is given to the said Secretary as to the quantity of condensed milk manufactured in terms of these conditions, and generally in relation to all matters affecting such claim.

6. The department reserves to itself the right to refuse to grant any bonus on any condensed milk which does not appear to comply with the above regulations.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

SCHEDULE.

I, __, of __, secretary or manager of __, do solemnly and sincerely declare, in regard to __ lb. of condensed milk manufactured by __ during the month of __, 190 __, and in respect to which a part-payment of the bonus offered by the New Zealand Government for the encouragement of the manufacture of condensed milk in New Zealand is claimed, that the manufacture of the said milk complies with the whole of the conditions under which the bonus is offered, which conditions are published in the New Zealand Gazette of June, 1901. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882."

[Signature.]

Declared at __, this __ day of __, one thousand nine hundred and __, before me— __, Justice of the Peace, Solicitor, or Notary Public.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 7th June, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence (4d.) per pound will be paid on the production of the first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000 lb.) of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on or before the 31st March, 1903, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1904.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producing the required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Crown Lands Notices.

Notifying Land in Canterbury as subject to "The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900."

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th June, 1901.

PURSUANT to the provisions of "The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900," I hereby notify that the under-mentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Puhuka Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 39 acres 2 roods 11 perches, more or less, being Rural Section No. 3131, situated in Block X., Arowhenua Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by the Old South Road; towards the north by Blair Street; towards the north-east and east by the Great North Road; and towards the south by Rural Section No. 2125: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 19232, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.